documentary
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Cherry Grove Stories
Cherry Grove Stories is a joyous account of an iconic gay haven that has always played a crucial role in LGBT history. It is part of Fire Island that is located just off Long Island, New York and which started out in the 1950’s when gay men and women needed a safe place to escape from…
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JANAE MARIE KROC talks about her movie TRANSFORMER
queerguru talked with Janae Marie Kroc the ex-Marine & former World Weightlifting Champion about Transformer an exceptionally wonderful documentary about her remarkable journey of transitioning, that is about to screen at OUTshine Film Festival in Miami Transformer was directed by Michael Del Monte, who also co-wrote it with Paul Kemp
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Beautiful By Night : the tale of 3 veteran Drag Queens
James Hosking’s illuminating documentary follows three veteran drag entertainers at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, one of the very last gay bars left in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. His camera silently follows Olivia Hart, Collette LeGrande, and Donna Personna as they prepare for another night shift performing at the dive bar that has become quite a haunt for tourists…
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From Baghdad to The Bay
Ten years in the making this new excellent documentary from filmmaker Erin Palmquist is the engaging story of Ghazwan Alsharif an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the U.S. military. After years of service helping the American invading forces, he was wrongfully accused of espionage and tortured by the military police in Iraq for some 75 days…
